Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
Logging Equipment Loss Due To Fire
BACKGROUND: On a logging job in the Lake States Region during February, an operator of harvesting equipment had blown a hydraulic hose. He called for assistance from a skidder operator for a tow to the landing where the equipment could be repaired….
Log Truck Driver Injured During Crash While Not Wearing A Seatbelt
BACKGROUND: On a fall morning in the Southeastern U.S., a truck driver hauling an empty log trailer was traveling eastbound on a state highway. The logging crew was in the process of moving to a new tract. The driver was driving the posted speed…
Driver Injured While Failing To Maintain A Safe Following Distance
BACKGROUND: On a spring afternoon in the Southeastern U.S., a log truck driver was transporting his second load of the day to the consuming mill. Conditions were clear and dry, so weather was not a contributing factor to the accident. PERSONAL…
Collision With Train Injures Log Truck Driver
BACKGROUND: On a spring morning in the Southeastern U.S., a log truck driver was starting to transport his second load of the day. Weather was not a contributing factor to the accident as conditions were clear and dry. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The…
Ice Causes Truck Operator To Fall
BACKGROUND: On a winter day in the Lake States Region an employee of a logging company was showing the truck operator how to secure a loader on a lowboy trailer. The conditions were wintery with snow and ice present. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The…
Fatality From Rotating Disc On Excavator
BACKGROUND: On a winter day in the Pacific Northwest an equipment operator trimming brush alongside a logging road died after he was apparently pulled into a rotating disc used to cut brush. He was using an excavator with a disc cutting attachment…
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